Is there software for generating encounters for D&D 3.5e?Please be aware that a random encounter generator like you're asking will usually be based on comparing challenge ratings, and challenge ratings are usually not a good way to choose enemies for your party (platinum horrors are CR9 monsters with at will disintegrate and there's a CR3 crab with huge armor and grapple modifiers, and those are just the infamous ones... while a grick has very low HP and is a CR3. Plus, your party might be unequippd to fight swarms, or flying creatures, making them much more hard to cope with)

Short Swords or Hand axes?@DanceSC the average damage added by improved critical to a sword and an axe is the same. If you need a high roll to hit, the sword starts having those "would be a critical threat but it missed" earlier, meaning it loses some damage to the axe.

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Short Swords or Hand axes?@DanceSC 0.1 chance * 2 extra weapon damage = 0.2 extra damage; 0.2 chance * 1 extra weapon damage = still 0.2 extra damage. Improved critical or keen and similar properties increase damage in the same way (the axe is then better if you hit with a 17 or more, for the same reason it's better if you hit only with a 20 without the feat)